Re: Windows under KVM + dual boot

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Mon Apr 16 2007, Avi Kivity <avi-AT-qumranet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>     
>>> on Wed Apr 11 2007, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> Unfortunately, KVM core dumps the instant I select XP from my grub
>>>>> menu.  By contrast, it will happily launch a linux kernel (on
>>>>> partitions other than the ones I'm booted into; don't worry).  This
>>>>> makes me think that it's probably not a driver problem, although I
>>>>> could of course be wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone care to help me diagnose this one?
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> We probably misemulate something that grub uses when chainloading
>>>> another bootloader.
>>>>
>>>> A good test is running with -no-kvm.  The gdb backtrace from the
>>>> core dump is also interesting.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Unfortunately it doesn't look too interesting when I simply run kvm
>>> under gdb.  Is there something else I can do?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Well, considering that it doesn't work under -no-kvm, I'm not sure
>> what's going on here.
>>     
>
> Should I take this to the qemu list?
>
>   

Well, the disk image may have been corrupted by kvm somehow (I think it 
unlikely, though) so it would be best to reproduce this with stock qemu 
all the way from installation.

What did you do exactly?  Port an existing setup to kvm/qemu or install 
on a vm from scratch?  If an existing setup, does it still work natively?

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